 Rodney Smith is the Community Outreach Manager for TigerMountain Foundation, an organization formed to help build flourishing neighborhood gardens ... and so much more. It helps build genuine self-value and competency in participants that enables people to rise above poverty.

The program uses gardening to touch lives in many ways, to: 
Restore pride in a community through beautification of vacant lots.
Inspire people to volunteer and engage in their community.
Provide youth the skills they need to prepare them for employment—and a better life.
Provide people on-the-job opportunities through landscaping, planting in community gardens, and selling and marketing what they grow at farmers’ markets.

TigerMountain empowers adults and youth as they garden alongside capable volunteer professionals who encourage and mentor them through every step.  Participants plant, grow and harvest produce they can use in their home. Local youth, troubled teens and adults get paying jobs taking care of our gardens where they learn what it means to be a valued and dependable worker. Garden produce is available at local farmer’s markets.

Participants provide landscaping services to local residents and businesses. Through this program, they learn real on-the-job skills. And the services provide operating income for TigerMountain. 100% of the funds TigerMountain makes from landscaping and gardening are invested back into the community.

Rodney has experienced first-hand the life-changing potential of TigerMountain, where the mission is simple: To empower communities to better themselves from within.

To learn more about the TigerMountain Foundation, click here: https://tigermountainfoundation.org/

Original air date: February 5, 2026.

&nbsp;Rodney Smith is the Community Outreach Manager for TigerMountain Foundation, an organization formed to help build flourishing neighborhood gardens ... and so much more. It helps build genuine self-value and competency in participants that enables people to rise above poverty.
The program uses gardening to touch lives in many ways, to:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Restore pride in a community through beautification of vacant lots.</li>
<li>Inspire people to volunteer and engage in their community.</li>
<li>Provide youth the skills they need to prepare them for employment&mdash;and a better life.</li>
<li>Provide people on-the-job opportunities through landscaping, planting in community gardens, and selling and marketing what they grow at farmers&rsquo; markets.</li>
</ul>
TigerMountain empowers adults and youth as they garden alongside capable volunteer professionals who encourage and mentor them through every step.&nbsp; Participants plant, grow and harvest produce they can use in their home. Local youth, troubled teens and adults get paying jobs taking care of our gardens where they learn what it means to be a valued and dependable worker. Garden produce is available at local farmer&rsquo;s markets.
Participants provide landscaping services to local residents and businesses. Through this program, they learn real on-the-job skills. And the services provide operating income for TigerMountain. 100% of the funds TigerMountain makes from landscaping and gardening are invested back into the community.
Rodney has experienced first-hand the life-changing potential of TigerMountain, where the mission is simple: To empower communities to better themselves from within.
To learn more about the TigerMountain Foundation, click here: <a href="https://tigermountainfoundation.org/">https://tigermountainfoundation.org/</a>
Original air date:&nbsp;February 5, 2026.

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world.

Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism.

Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world. Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism. Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/">https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/</a>

Rescuers radio show

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.